Why you should experience Claridge House Chicago, Tapestry Collection by Hilton in Chicago, Illinois.
Claridge House Chicago, Tapestry Collection by Hilton is a neighborly boutique hotel where Gold Coast's residential refinement, architectural pedigree, intimate scale and century-long tradition of metropolitan living converge within a 1923 apartment hotel.
Set along North Dearborn Parkway near West Goethe Street and just steps from Washington Square Park, the property was designed by native Chicago architect Walter W. Ahlschlager during a period when affluent newcomers routinely made permanent homes inside the city's residential hotels. Claridge originally operated within that culture of extended urban residence, and the building even supported a rooftop ice skating rink used by occupants and neighborhood residents during its early history. The Claridge name survived on the exterior through subsequent identities, including Claridge Hotel until 2005 and Hotel Indigo thereafter, leaving the initials “CH” and the original name physically inscribed into the building as its hospitality program changed. The result is a hotel where Ahlschlager's 1923 architecture, an unusual history of permanent hotel residence and the surviving Claridge inscription preserve a century of Gold Coast domestic culture beneath its contemporary identity.
What you should know about Claridge House Chicago.
Claridge House Chicago, Tapestry Collection by Hilton is best known for reclaiming its original Claridge character on May 30, 2018 after a $9 million redevelopment led by Oxford Hotels & Resorts and investor Interwest Capital transformed the former Hotel Indigo into a 165-room independent boutique property. Chicago based The Gettys Group directed the redesign, preserving the classical character of Walter W. Ahlschlager's building while recasting the interiors around a pied à terre concept, including black and white imagery of Chicago's John Hancock Center alongside photographs of London rowhouses and vintage cars referencing the Claridge name. Interwest Capital had acquired the 12-story property in 2016, two years before the redevelopment replaced its Hotel Indigo identity, while the completed accommodation program comprised 160 guestrooms and five suites. The property entered another institutional chapter on October 23, 2025 when its 165 rooms joined Hilton's Tapestry Collection, connecting Ahlschlager, Interwest Capital, Oxford, The Gettys Group and Hilton across more than a century of changing hotel authorship.
Chef Felipe Patron developed the principal culinary expression of the 2018 reinvention through Juniper Spirits & Oysters, which opened with Claridge House as a seafood driven restaurant pairing oysters with a cocktail program inside the redesigned ground floor. The current dining chapter introduces Sushi By Bou Gold Coast alongside Cal's at Claridge House, giving Hilton's contemporary presentation of the property two named restaurant identities while retaining the intimate neighborhood scale established by the earlier redevelopment. The 2025 Tapestry Collection affiliation placed Claridge House inside Hilton's portfolio of independently characterized hotels without discarding the Claridge name revived by Oxford seven years earlier, making continuity of character central to the latest transition. Together, Felipe Patron, Juniper Spirits & Oysters, Sushi By Bou Gold Coast, Cal's at Claridge House and Tapestry Collection extend the property's chronology from architectural recovery into food, independent branding and global hospitality affiliation while preserving Claridge as the connective thread.
How to fold Claridge House Chicago into your trip.
Claridge House Chicago, Tapestry Collection by Hilton works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing architectural experimentation, private scholarship and collecting culture through Gold Coast.
Begin at Charnley-Persky House, where lumberman James Charnley commissioned Adler & Sullivan for the residence completed in 1892, with Louis Sullivan and his young employee Frank Lloyd Wright stripping away fashionable Victorian ornament in favor of abstract forms and spatial clarity that anticipated major currents in American modernism. Continue to Newberry Library, founded on July 1, 1887 through Walter Loomis Newberry's $2.2 million bequest, where first librarian William Frederick Poole acquired 25,000 books within eighteen months before working through a famously contentious design relationship with architect Henry Ives Cobb on the permanent building opened opposite Washington Square Park in 1893. Conclude at International Museum of Surgical Science, housed inside the 1917 Eleanor Robinson Countiss House, where Howard Van Doren Shaw adapted the architectural language of Ange-Jacques Gabriel's Petit Trianon at Versailles for a four-story Lake Shore Drive residence financed by Countiss's father, Diamond Match Company executive J.K. Robinson, before the International College of Surgeons acquired the property in 1950. The progression moves from Sullivan and Wright's rejection of Victorian convention through Newberry, Poole and Cobb's intellectual institution into Shaw and Countiss's interpretation of French classicism, revealing the architectural and cultural ambition surrounding Claridge House Chicago, Tapestry Collection by Hilton in Gold Coast.
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